Pricing life why it's time for health care rationing / Peter A. Ubel.

Author/creator Ubel, Peter A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, MA : MIT Press,
Descriptionxix, 208 p. ; 23 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesBasic bioethics
Contents Machine generated contents note: Cost-Effectiveness and the Controversial Necessity of Health Care -- Rationing 1 -- Rationing According to Cost-Effectiveness: Explicit, Quantifiable, -- and Unacceptable? 3 -- The Politics of Defining Health Care Rationing 11 -- The Necessity of Rationing Health Care 31 -- The Challenge of Measuring Community Values in Ways -- Appropriate for Making Rationing Decisions 47 -- How Do People Want to Ration Health Care? Balancing -- Cost-Effectiveness and Fairness 67 -- Cost-Effectiveness and Bedside Rationing: Do Two Wrongs Make -- a Right? 97 -- The Case Against Bedside Rationing 99 -- Recognizing Bedside Rationing 111 -- Linguistic Confusion about Bedside Rationing 125 -- The Unbearable Rightness of Bedside Rationing 137 -- The Future of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Care -- Rationing 153 -- Future Possibilities for Improving How Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Incorporates Public Rationing Preferences 155 -- The Future of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Care -- Rationing 173.
General note"A Bradford book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 99020664
ISBN0262210169 (hc. : alk. paper)

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